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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3901, 28 April 1877, Page 2

A meeting of the ploughing match committee of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society was held yesterday at 2 p.m. at the Criterion Hotel. Present — Messrs Bennett, Well wood, and A. M'Loan. Two oilers of land for the purpose of the match had been sent in — one from Mr Wellwood, and one from Mr Condie, of Redclyfl'e. It was resolved that Mr Wellwood's offer should be accepted, and that the match be held in his paddock near Hastings on the 24th of May. The committee considered that the superior accessibleness of Mr Wellwood's paddock was a sufficient reason for preferring it. The train passes not far from it, and at last year's ploughing match, dropped visitors within twenty chains of the scene of operations. It was resolved that all ploughing by single-furrow ploughs should be in one class, distinction being made between the work of wheelploughs and swing - ploughs ; there was only one competitor in the swing-plough class last year. Five prizes are to be given, ranging in value from £8 to £1. For ploughing with double-furrow ploughs, two prizes will be given of £5 and £3 respectively. In addition to these a silver champion cup of the value of £7 is to be awarded for the best ploughing on the ground. In reference to the show of foals, thoroughbred and draft, it was resolved that the first prizes in each class should bo silver medals ; and the second 2">rize, certificates. Fur the best pair of plough horses worked in the match, the property of one owner, the lirst prize to be £3, and the second £2. The secretary was instructed to request Messrs Gcmmcl, George Condie, and James M'lntyre to act as judges of the ploughing ; Colonel Whitmore, Mr Danvers and Mr Bishop, as judges of the thoroughbred foals ; and Messrs Bennett, Wellwood, and Gemmel, as judges of the draught foals. Lunch will be provided for the competitors on the ground. Tradespeople and owners of entires are invited to offer special prizes, and we are requested to intimate to them that the announcements in regard to these prizes will be put on the committee's programme and advertised at the society's expense. Another meeting of the committee will be held a week prior to the match. A meeting of the committee of the Hawke's Bay Acclimatisation Society was held yesterday in the Council Chamber. Present — Colonel AVhitmore (in the chair), and Messrs Sutton (lion, secretary), Burton, Joshua and Williams. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. The lion, secretary stated that he had requested Mr Tabuteuu to furnish both the papers once a week with the names of all persons taking out game licenses. It was resolved that Thomas Alexander Hayes be appointed a ranger to the society at a salary of £20 per annum. The lion, secretary thought it would be expedient to notify the names of the rangers, and after a short discussion on the matter it was resolved that the names of the rangers appointed by the society should be notified by public advertisement. It was also resolved. '• That in addition to the reward provided by the Act, the society shall give £C> as a bonus to any ranger procuring the conviction of any person for oilbnces against the Animals Protection Act, 1873." 1 tVsvas agreed that the Australian liiinahs which have arrived per ilangatira should be sold vii Monday next. The desirability of appointing the whole of the police as rangers having been brought under notice qf the committee by the honorary secretary it was resolved that Inspector Scully be clkinnmieated with in order to obtain the appointment of the police as rangers. Some discussion arose on a suggestion by Mr Williams that the a^joty should endeavor to make amuigeiflffits for breeding trout wi^> the view of afterwards dis^ tributing the young fish. Ultimately a sub-committee, consisting of Messrs Williams, Burton and Joshua, was appointed to obtain information on the subject. The committee then adjourned. The Auckland people appear to be anxiously looking out for the arrival of the Hon. J. D. Ormond in that city. The Herald of the 20th instant says :--" Wo have looked for Mr Ormond over since he joined the Ministry, and it was announced that he had taken complete control over the Native Land Purchase Department, with the full intention of cleansing that worst of all the Government Augean stables. Nearly all the present Ministers have deplored tho evils resulting from the laud purchase, system, but the present Native Minister ha;; always not only repudiated responsibility, but declared that he would not meddle in any way with the Land Department, which was under Iho entire control of Mr Ormond. So far as the public can see, no progress has been made under Mr Ormond's rule. He is now, we presume, about to commence the cleansing process, in respect to the Thames, there may be particular blocks which cannot be settled at present ; but we are convinced that if Mr Ormond examines into the details, and is content to spend some time here, instead of paying merely a iiying visit to the province of Auckland, he will be able to hand over to the Waste Lands Board for settlement much valuable land. After all, we may be too sanguine in anticipating a visit from Mr Ormond. The steamer touches at Napier, and he may be taking a trip home on a holiday from his duties at Wellington. We can hardly anticipate, however, that he will continue to remain absent from what ought to be to him the most important district in the colony,"

Wo regret to hear that letters have been received from Mr Tanner, of Riverslea, who is at present in England, Avhicli appear to put it beyond doubt that the Rev. S. Robinson is not in priest's orders, as he described liimself to be when in Napier. The information rests on the authority of the Bishop of Down, and the Rev. J. H. Deacon, the incumbent of Trinity Church' Belfast, Avitli both of which gentlemen Mr Tanner held personal communication. Mr Bennett intimated at the meeting of the ploughing match committee, yesterdaj", that he intended to resign the post of secretary to the society. Owing to the circumstance of his residing in the country he found it impossible to conduct the ' correspondence. Mr Bennett's loss will be seriously felt ; it Avill not be easy to find airy one so well suited for the post. The resignation will not take effect until the next annual meeting of the society on the 31st of May. The Court of Petty Sessions met at AA'aipawa on Tlmrsday last, Lieut. -Col. Herrick, J.P. (chairman), J. M. Stokes, Esq. , J. P., and R. Harding, Esq., J.P., presiding. Firth v. AVoolston. Claim for £17 9s for stores, etc., supplied ; judgment for the amount claimed with 28s costs. — Hallasy v. M'Lean. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant was in possession of a coav and a calf which were his property and had strayed away. Thedefendant proved he had bought the cattle from Mr Mathews, of Hampden. No brands had been xised, but the coav had been ear-marked. The mark used by Hallasy and Mathews were nearly alike, but satisfactory evidence was brought forAvard to substantiate the defendant as the rightful oAvner. Judgment Avas accordingly giA'en for the defendant Avith costs and ox])enses, amounting to £3 los, — Rathbone a\ Brears. Claim of £6 os 3d for goods, &q. , supplied : payment by default with costs IGs. Other cases were Avithdrawn before hearing. AYe notice that the Corporation are having BroAvning - street cleared and levelled from the corner of the Post-office up to the gate leading into the Government inelosiire, Avith the view of using that part of the street as a cab-stand. The Auckland Eiwninr/ Star, Sir George Grey's and Mr Rees' organ, has an article in a recent issue full of malicious rejoicing over the imagined ruin of " AVoolville," as it is pleased facetiously to term Napier, based on the telegram Avhich Aye quoted a Aveek or so ago as haA'ing been forwarded from a Napier noAvspaper office alleging the bar to be impassable. It was with the A'ieAv simply of counteracting the mischievous effect of such telegrams and such articles that Aye thought it desirable to remark that the Jane Douglas had come in at extreme loav Avater and the Rangatira two hours before high water OA'er the alleged impassable bar. AYe hear that avc haA T e been taken up in some quarters as having intended to cast reflections on the persons in charge of other vessels which may haA'e recently grounded or got fast. AYe can only say that Aye entertained no intention of the kind whatever. AYe stated in a recent issue that the Telegraph authorities, having in view the importance of getting news from Europe at the earliest possible time, haA r e agreed to open the telegraph office at 9.30 each night. The X.Z. Herald says : — "This has been clone, Aye believe, at the instance of tlie Press Agency. It is obvious that it is of the utmost importance Aye should have immediate intelligence respecting the declaration of war, and as it is probable that other nations besides the two who are now principals, may ultimately join in hostilities, Aye knoAV not what j course may have to be taken before Europe again settles down to peace. The extension of the telegraph is at present of great advantage to England, Avhose ships are in every sea and at every port. NeAV [ Zealand is in a someAvhat disadvantageous position for getting the eai'licst news. It is the Far East of the Avorhl, so that when telegrams reach Melbourne at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, it is already six o'clock here. Telegrams reaching Melbourne at six o'clock in flic evening hitherto have been too late for transmission to New Zealand, oAving to the closing of the offices, but this Avill noAV be obviated." A special meeting of the Hawke's Bay County Council Avas held yesterday, for the purpose of passing the bye-laAvs by ' ' special order, ' ' after adopting the amendments suggested by the county solicitors. Present— The Chairman (Mr H. S. Tiffen), Messrs Brathwaite, AVilliams, and Bennett. The resolution adopting the special order haA'ing been passed, the Council adjourned. Another meeting Avill have to be held, not [sooner than in four Aveeks' time, to confirm the resolution passed yesterday. Messrs Large and ToAvnley haA-e been adding a second floor, 75 feet long, to their factoiy. The firm now employ 27 men in the various branches of their manufacture of furniture, and three Avmnon are employed in the upholstering department. Articles of furniture of all kinds, both useful and ornamental, are \ made on the premises, from the plainest to the most elaborate. The firm have their OAvn carvers, avoocl turners, polishers, ite. ; in fact, all the Avork is done on the pp<>t, from its first stage to its last finishing touch, and really some of tho articles turned out Avill compare favorably with the best English manufactures. At the time. Avhen our reporter visited the factory, .Some tAvo or three days ago, there were two very haniUouir book -cases being made, one of c.oJjLand the other of kauri, anil they Avere highly creditable to the skill of the Avorkmen. Among the appliances in hand for saving- labor there aye two self-feeding saws, which are really pretty inventions of their kind. AYe uinloi'stiunl that one boy can turn out more work Avith onu of the machines than four men could do with an ordinary saw. We recommend those avlio would like to see Avhat Aye can do in Napier in the Avay of local industries to pay a visit to the manufactory of Messrs Large and Toavuley. We learn that tho Hon. .J. D. Ormoiid Avill leave Napier by the Wanaku, and that the steamer Avill probably not take her departure for AVellingtt.ni until 3 o'clock this afternoon. A really Avonderful specimen of caligruphy is now on vioAV at the Masonic Hotel. It is a " Chronological Tree of New Zealand,' 1 the Avork, in pen and ink of Mr J. M. Meek. Copies of the work are being engraved in Auckland, and will be shortly reaily for delivery to subscribers of one guinea each. By an advertisement in another column it will be seen that Captain Routledge and the coimuitree <»f tho Napier Artillery A r nluiiteers request a meeting of the Napier Brass Band, to be held at Sergeant-Major Gray's to-night, at 8 o clock, to hike into consideration the joining of the band U< the battery. ft i.s requested that there lie a full attendance of members. The return cnVket match between the Star and Tanulale Club will be played tin's aftuiiioon ill Tavadalo ; wickets to be pitched at 2 p.m. .-;liavp. The following have been selected t<> represent the Star team, who Avill .start from the Criterion at half -past twelve punctually: — Messrs Reurdon, Hunt, Cavnell, Mogrid'-e Hal)ei,(, THley, J. Martin, 1.1. Martin,°J. Ross, D. Ross, Hingston and Ed.ser (L2th man). Since the last news of impending Avar between Russia and Turkey has come to hand, it has been a mutter of comment that the war would be of advantage to these colonies in an increased demand for our tiilloAV. should Turkey succeed, in closing the Russian ports in the Baltic. We learn that 23,000 bales of avool have gone from Hawke's Bay this season. In " Stable's Circular" to hand by the San Francisco mail, there are no sales of IT.'iAvko's Bay avool reported, and tho number of bales of NeAV Zealand wool sold is very small,

The Times of March 7th, in a brief obituary notice of Sir Donald M'Lean, sa y S ; — » Sir Donald M'Lean had thorough sympathy with the Maoris. He knew exactly how much to concede to them. He realised and gave effect to the policy of conciliating and cultivating their confidence. As a natural consequence the natives thoroughly believed in him and largely deferred to his personal influence. Sir Donald M'Loau's death creates a marked void in tho rank of colonial statesmen. Men like him arc wanted in South Africa and in other of Her Majesty's possessions." We (Nelson Colonist) are informed that the St. Helen's station, Hanmer Plains, Amuri district, belonging to Mr H. P. De Lapasture, comprising in land, 5560 acres of freehold, 9537 leasehold, 13,953 acres leasehold, and IGBO acres reserve, with 13,300 sheep, has been purchased by Mr AY. A. Low, of Oamaru. The purchase money is said to be £20,000. A proclamation appears in the _ZV. Z. Gazette to the effect that G. E. G. Richardson, Esq., has been appointed auditor for the Counties of Cook, AVairoa, Hawke's Bay and AVaipawa. Mr N. J. Isaacs has disposed of by public auction, in Wellington, the Dry River run, situated at AVharekaka, to Messrs Jacob Joseph and Co. , the mortgagees, for £8000. The run consisted of 1G39 acres of freehold land, all laid down in English grass, and was stocked with 4200 sheep, 200 cattle, and 4 horses. There is also a dwelling house on the jjroporty ; and all necessary appurtenances of a first-rate station. The San Francisco Chronicle has the following : — "Madame lima de Murska's indisposition, which has lately prevented her appearance in opera at the Baldwin Academy of Music, is rendered the more deplorable- when the circumstance is explained that the unavoidable disappointment of her numerous admirers is in no manner attributable to the prima donna's neglect of sanitary precautions or careless exposure to the night fogs now prevalent. As far as anxious inquiries have ascertained, the indisposition of the songstress grew out of an inadvertence in the acceptance of a bouquet. The floral tribute was tendered by Herr Muller, the baritone of the Opera Company, and the putative husband of Madame Fabbri. lima received the offering most graciously, in the spirit in which it was bestowed, and was absorbed with the delicate fragrance and exquisite structure of the sweet posies, j when her right eye suddenly experienced a prismatic effect that changed the arrangement of the bouquet to a stellar formation, and the prima donna caught a momentary I glimpse of more stars than are comprised in the Avhole chart of the visible heavens. About the same instant Madame Fabbri turned on her heel and returned into the flies, exclaiming, in vociferous German, something not written in the opera libretto, to the effect that that was the sort of a hair-pin she was. De Murska did not reply in the same tone, and the purport of her remark was not noted. Tho indisposition occurred during rehearsal."' In his address to the electors of Totara, Mr Gisborne says : — "I may state i generally that I would support the Government in measures to give successful effect to the Public Works policy of 1870, with which I was identified, to maintain the unit >n of the colony, to follow up provincial abolition by securing substantial local self-government in goldfields and other districts, and to place the finances of the colony in a sound and satisfactory position." According to the N.Z. Times, the Commission of the Peace in New Zealand now numbers 1000 names. It would indeed have been something marvellous (says tho liam/itikei Advocate) had the system of local 'self-government, which Avas framed to supersede provincial institutions, Avox-ked smoothly from its very inauguration. It is, avo think, a subject for congratulation that the Counties Act, in this portion of the colony at least, has been so comparatively exempt from those little unpleasantnesses whiah Aye can but expect to find attending the apportionment of the loaves and fishes necessitated by the change. A report has appeared in some Southern papers to the effect that Messrs Brogden and Son have served a Avrit for £188,000 on the Government for extras on the Clutha railway, and that other writs for nearly quarter of a million on other works are to folloAV. This is incorrect. Messrs Brogden and Son have large, very large unadjusted claims against the Government on account of their various railAvay contracts, but these claims are still the subject of negotiation, and no legal proceedings have been taken.- -Argus. According to the Mayor of Auckland, AVellington, that city of band-boxes, does not lose a chance oi injuring its naturally more favorably endoAved rival, the commercial capital of the North Island. In reference to the census returns, the Mayor drew attention to the unfair way in which the Auckland census returns were made out in Wellington, and compared Avith those of other towns in the colony. The death rate Avas grossly exaggerated, the effect of which would be to lead people at a distance to think that Auckland was a very unhealthy place, Avhereas it was the healthiest city in New Zealand. In fact the Avhole of the Auckland returns as made up from time to time by tho Government Avero incorrect. Arrangements Avere being made by him to have a census taken of the number of houses contained in^ the borough, a2id its population. — TJ r ((ik<(to Tiiucs. Tho Ofuifo Daily Times states that salmon trout appear to be pretty Avell distributed through the harbor, and anticipates that next season fishing will be alloAved. Mr Stone Avill conduct divine service at Hastings on Suiuhvy (to-momnv) evening, at < o clock.